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VOL. XI. NO. 78.
TEDDY TAKES
FAREWELL
FLING AT
WILSON
Assails Governor for Alleged
Failure to Curb the Trusts
“When He Had Chance.”
STANDARD OIL IS CITED AS
ONE JERSEY LAWBREAKER
Mooser Says State Amendment
Would Have Curtailed Pow
ers of Such Monopolies.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt today fired his final big
gun at Governor Woodrow Wilson. He
bitterly assailed Governor Wilson's at
titude on the trust question, and ac
cused the New Jersey candidate of
failing to act while he had the oppor
tunity to amend the New Jersey trust
laws.
Swinging from his attack upon Gov
ernor Wilson, the colonel rapped both
the Democrats and Republicans for
their tariff program and made a final
appeal to people of all classes to sup
port the Progressive ticket at thd polls
next Tuesday.
The heaviest part of the assault fell
upon Governor Wilson. After point
ing that the governor had the. New
Jersey legislature with him, the col
onel said:
"He (Governor Wilson) has had am
ple opportunity and he himself has de
clared it was his duty to proceed
against the trusts by legislative act.”
Says Wilson Never
Tried to Control Trusts.
The colonel quoted from speeches by
Governor Wilson to show that the lat
ter stood by state control rather than
national control of monopolies. He
added that Governor Wilson never tried
to get through the legislature of New
Jersey measures to solve the problem
of monopolistic control.
"Even after members of the legisla
ture at Trenton endeavored to secure
the necessary legislation,” declared
Colonel Roosevelt, "Governor Wilson
declined to give the legislature a lead
and declined to lift a finger in their
aid.”
The colonel then propounded four
questions to Governor W ilson. These
were:
1. Is it not a fact that the laws of
a state under which a corporation is
organized prescribe its power?
2. Are not all the powers of the
Standard Oil and similar monopolies
conferred by the laws of New Jersey?
8. Could not these powers have been
curtailed by amendments?
4. Why has not Mr. Wilson recom
mended such amendments?
Trusts Not Aiding
Him, He Declares.
The colonel denied that the trusts
were supporting the Progressive tick
et. He declared that the Standard Oil
and other huge corporations are bitter
in their opposition to the Progressive
ticket. All trusts, he charged, are work
ing for the old parties, either for the
Democratic ticket or the Republican
ticket.
According to the writer. President
Taft’s trust solution is about as bad
as Governor Wilson's.
Colonel Roosevelt then outlined the
Progressive program for corporation
control, saying that the Progressive
platform calls for a commission sim
ilar to the interstate commerce com
mission with wide powers vested in It
for regulation of "big business.” That,
he says, "will keep the eggs from being
scrambled.”
As to the tariff the Progressive lead
er charges that “it is the purpose of
both old parties to cling to the old
vicious methods.”
"We,” he says, "purpose to reduce
xcessive duties while maintaining the
principle of protection.”
150 Congressmen
And Tgft at Burial
NEW YGRK, Nov. 2.—Accompanied
by 150 members of congress, members
of the Republican national committee
and other distinguished persons, Presi
dent Taft left New York for Utica at
8:30 o'clock on a special train provid
ed for the mourners for Vice President
Sherman's funeral.
It war expected that extended con
ferences between the Republican lead
ers attending the funeral would result
in the selection of a running mate for
President Taft on the national ticket
before night.
It Is understood that former Vice
President Knirbanks Is in a receptive
frame of mind
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
Chinese College Girl
To Appeal to Georgia
Women for Her Race
Mongolian Maid to Address State
Students’ League Convention
at Rome Next Friday.
MACON, GA., Nov. 2. —Miss Chung
Ling Soong, a member of the senior
class of Wesleyan college, and one of
the most popular of the attendants of
the institution, will make an address to
the annual convention of the Georgia
Students Missionary • league when it
meets in Rome next Friday.
This association was organized in
Macon three years ago, and now has a
membership of 3,000. Professor C. R.
Forster, of Wesleyan College, is presi
dent, and he and a delegation of 45
Wesleyan girls, including Miss Chung,
will attend the convention. Miss
Chung’s address will be an appeal in
behalf of Chinese women.
Rev. J. S. Jenkins and E. A. Turner
and C. R. Stegall, of the. Georgia Tech,
all of Atlanta, will also take part in
the program.
The convention will be in session two
days, opening Friday night at Shorter
college, whose president. Dr. Van
Hoose, will deliver the address of wel
come.
SIOO,OOO ALIENATION
SUIT AGAINST TILLIS,
MILLIONAIRE, IS ON
MONTGOMERY, ALA., Nov. 2.—The
SIOO,OOO damage suit of I. E. Boyette
against his father-in-law, Richard Til
lis, millionaire traction magnate and
owner of the Montgomery baseball club,
for the alleged alienation of his wife's
affections, came to trial in the city
cuort here after the plaintiff tried un
successfully to secure a postponement
because of the absence of Ike White,
a negro chauffeur.
The plaintiff declared that he intend
ed to show by the negro that Tillis,
Mrs. Ophelia Tillis. Mrs. Boyette and
P. J. Westhofen, recently mysteriously
killed while motoring with Mrs. Boy
ette, took long automobile drives to
gether; that Tillis and his family once
went to St. Augustine, where they were
joined b Westhofen and that on one
occasion the Tillis automobile broke
down near Montgomery and Mrs. Boy
ette and Westhofen walked to Mont
gomery alone. He also said that he
intended to show that he had a personal
difficulty with Westhofen because of
his attentions to Mrs. Boyette.
Mrs. Ophelia Tillis was made co
defendant in the suit today. As the
testimony progresses it becomes more
sensational.
GIRL, 8, WILL RIDE
CHAMPION JUMPER
AT GOTHAM SHOW
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—Little Miss
Maude Preece is only eight years old,
but she rides high-bred horses while
they are making record jumps over
hurdles. When she came up the bay
aboard the Mlnneawaska from England
she failed to blush when a dozen news
paper photographers aimed their lenses
at her. She was clad In tight riding
breeches.
The tiny "horsewoman" is the daugh
ter of Ambrose Preece, trainer of James
Dunn's horses, though now he is train
ing for Miss Mona Dunn, ten years old.
and It Is her string of jumpers which
he brought over with him for exhibi
tions at the coming New York horse
show. There are 75 of them and they
were a birthday present from her fa
ther when Mona was nine years old.
Small Miss Preece will ride Briska, the
champion jumper of England. Her sis
ter, Helen, fifteen years old. rode at the
New r York horse show last winter.
COURT TO DECIDE
WHETHER FOOD IS
“AN ACT OF GOD”
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. —The court
of claims has been called upon to de
cide whether damage by flood is "an act
of God,” and if so, whether the gov
ernment or the contractors, who were
direct losers, should make good the
losses ensuing.
John G. and I. M. Day, California
contractors, are seeking to collect $52,-
458 which they say they spent in pro
tecting a canal on the Columbus river,
Oreg., from being destroyed by floods in
1904.
The government held that they could
not be reimbursed for the dikes and.
abutments they erected, and that they
were entitled only to the amount due
for constructing the canal—the original
improvement undertaken.
EXPRESS OFFICE MOVED.
DOUGLAS, GA., Nov. 2.—The Doug
las express office has been moved from
the Quincey & McDonald block to the
B. F. Hayes building on Peterson ave
nue near the A., B. & A. depot, being
more conveniently located.
Last Chance to See Poultry Show
At 10 o’clock tonight the doors close at the Auditorium, and
Atlanta’s greatest poultry show comes to an end.
If you have not yet attended, do not overlook your last
opportunity. Admission, ten cents.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1912.
GRISISNEAH
IN FIGHT TO
SAVE TURK
CAPITAL
Sultan’s Troops and Bulgarians
in Death Struggle, Most
Decisive of War.
ALLIES’ LOSSES REPORTED
HEAVY IN FINAL CHARGE
Chief of Ottoman Forces De
clares He Has Checked the
Onrushing Foes.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 2.—No
news came this morning from the bat
tle line in Thrace, where the Sultan's
demoralized troops are making a final
stand against the Bulgarians, with the
Turkish capital and, perhaps, the Otto
man empire the stake.
For four days ancL. four nights the
death struggle has been waged almost
incessantly, and it is believed the crisis
is near.
Some idea of the desperate nature
of the fighting is gathered from the
fact that more than 5,000 wounded
soldiers arrived in Constantinople to
day from the front. Fortunately, a
majority of the bullets drilled clean
holes in their victims, and these will
heal rapidly. A batch of deserters ar
rived with the wounded.
Indignation and surprise were ex
pressed here over the fact that a Greek
torpedo boat had succeeded in enter
ing the Gulf of Salonika, despite the
mines and heavily armed forts and
blown up the Turkish battleship Fet
1-bulend. The commandant of the forts
will be called to account for permitting
this Greek incursion.
Measures Taken
To Keep City Orderly.
The movement of troops to the front
continue. Among the measures the
government already has in min to in
sure order in the capital in event of
further Turkish reverses is the dis
patch of an army division to stop all
fugitive soldiers between Tchatalja
and Constantinople. The city, however,
at present,- is tranquil and orderly.
The Turkish army have recaptured
the town of Bunarhissar from the Bul
garians, and also has defeated the Bul
garians in the vicinity of Visa, accord
ingto dispatches received here this
morning from Nazim Pasha, command
er-in-chief of the Turkish forces.
Nazim’s dispatches declare the Bul
garian losses were heavy’, and that all
the Turkish army corps have now been
ordered to advance.
DOUGLAS TO HAVE $25,000
PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING
DOUGLAS. GA.. Nov. 2.—Douglas is
to have a new $25,000 school building
in the near future. The city school
board has received plans from J. H.
Crutchfield, of Vidalia; C. E. Choate,
of Atlanta, and G. L. Preacher, of Au
gusta. The building will be of brick,
containing ten large class rooms and a
large auditorium, and will be located
on the public school grounds at Syca
more street. It will have steam heat
and other modern conveniences
The wooden structure now on the lot
will be moved to the rear and converted
into a dormitory for the Georgia Nor
mal College and Business institute.
SHOW GIRL LOSES AND
RECOVERS HEIRLOOM
MACON. GA.. Nov. 2. —-Miss Anna
Schaefer, daughter of Jake Schaefer,
champion billiard player, lost her purse
and an heirloom bracelet worth S3OO
when she was in Macon yesterday with
the "Louisiana Lou" company, of which
she is a member. She missed the val
uables at the theater and was unable
to account for their disappearance. Just
as she was leaving her hotel for the
depot, the purse and bracelet were re-I
stored to her by an unknown woman,.
who rushed away without telling how j
she catne into possession of the arti-1
cles.
School Girl Debaters
Defeat Boy Opponents
OnWoman'sSuffrage
Judges Unanimously Give Deci
sion to Feminine Speakers at
Glynn Academy Contest.
BRUNSWICK, GA., Nov. 2.—Two
literary societies have been formed at
the Glynn academy, one of which bears
the name of "Sidney Lanier,” and the
other "Ralph Newton.”
The first debate of the Lanier society
was held yesterday with the subject,
"Resolved, That women should have
the ballot." The affirmative was cham
pioned by two of the society’s most
prominent girls. Misses Fatnnle Thomas
and Leila Parker, while the negative
was represented by James Guold and
Leslie Wilder. boys could not con
trovert the arguments of the girls in
their declamations for suffrage for
their sex and the latter were
awarded -the decision without a dis
senting voice by the judges.
SOCIALIST PARTY HAS
$42,735 CAMPAIGN FUND
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—The na
tional committee of the Socialist party
collected for the present campaign $42.-
735.48, according to a statement tiled
with the clerk of the house of repre
sentatives by Treasurer O. F. Branstet
ter, of Chicago. The largest Individual
contributor, the report showed, was the
international convention of United
Brewery Workers, with headquarters at
Cincinnati, Ohio.
This young Yellow Jacket ath
lete plays left guard, and is
expected to play a great /
game against Auburn /
this afternoon.
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GEORGIA-CAROLINA
ANNUAL FAIR NEXT
WEEK AT AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, GA., Nov. 2.—The
seventh annual Georgia-Carolina fair
opens here Monday and from that day
until the fair closes on Saturday of
next week there will be thousands of
people to visit Augusta.
On Monday the fair will be opened
with addresses by Congressmen Thom
as W. Hardwick and James F. Byrne,
the former of Georgia and the latter of
South Carolina.
On Wednesday and Thursday special
trains will be operated into Augusta
from Carolina and Georgia points.
Thursday is expected to be the big
gest day of the week, as Georgia and
Clemson clash here in their annual foot,
ball game. Annually thousands of peo
ple from bth sides of the Savannah
river gather in Augusta for the battle
between the Red and Black aggregation
and the Clemson Tigers.
The fair this year is much larger
than ever before. A new $12,000 main
building has just been erected and other
improvements have been added which
make it one of the best fairs in tlie en
tire South.
ONE DEAD, 20 HURT IN
EARLY MORNING FIRE
IN A ST. LOUIS HOTEL
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 2.—One man was
burned to death, twenty or more per
sons were Injured, three probably fa
tally, and 150 occupants of the Berlin
hotel were compelled to Hee in their
night clothes when fire destroyed the
building early today.
The flames obtained headway before
the occupants of the rooms were aware
that there was a fire and men, women
and children were compelled to lower
themselves from ropes, jump or be car
ried from the burning building.
Miss Edna Kissinger, a high school
ter rher, clung to the window ledge of a
room until the flames scorched he'
finger tips and burned her hair, com
pelling her to loosen her hold. She
dropped and was injured seriously.
RATS START FIRE, BURNING
TWO HAZLEHURST HOMES
HAZLEHURST, GA., Nov. 2,—The
residences of M. L. Odom and Judge S.
D. Dell were destroyed by Are yester
day. The fire originated in Mr. Odom’s
kitchen, and spread to Judge Dell's
house, which was near. Mr. Odom lost
everything in the house. Judge Dell
saved a small part of his furniture.
Rats are supposed to have caused the
fire. The loss Is SB,OOO, partially in
sured.
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BOILER EXPLODES
ON 0. S. WARSHIP
One Killed and Five Seriously
Injured by Accident on the
Battleship Vermont.
NORFOLK, VA„ Nov. 2—One man
was killed and five men seriously in
jured when a boiler on the battleship
Vermont exploded about 2 o'clock this
morning.
The dead:
W. Holman.
The Injured:
R. M. Wagner, J. F. Newberry, M.
W. Green, H. H. Cramer and C. H
Mottally.
Wagner was probably fatally in
jured and the battleship is now hurry
ing to Norfolk to transfer the man to
the naval hospital there.
The accident happened while the shin
was at anchor off the southern drill
grounds, where the annual fall targe
praotice begins today. The head of No.
6 boiler blew out throwing boiling hot
water and steam with considerable
force on the helpless man. Wagner and
Holman, who were near the bursting
boiler, were horribly scalded. The oth
ers were badly burned.
AUGUSTA MOOSERS
WORKING TO WHIP
TAFT IN RICHMOND
AUGUSTA, GA., Nov. 2.—The local
Bull Moose party men held a meeting
last night for the purpose of instilling
Interest in the election of next Tues
day. Joseph M. Lee, former census
supervisor for the Tenth Georgia dis
trict, Is the leader of the Bull Moose
movement in Augusta, and James J.
Farrell, secretary of the Augusta
Chamber of Commerce, is' the district
presidential elector. The meeting was
fairly well attended. The great ef
fort that Is being made by the local
Progressives is to beat President Taf
in Richmond county.
The Democrats held a meeting last
night also and made plans for a big
rally Monday night. It is b lieved that
Wilson and Marshall will receive a salt
plurality in this county.
COLUMBUSUVERYMAN
DRINKS CARBOLIC ACID
COLUMBUS, GA , Nov. 2—H. H.
Blackmon, a well known Columbus citi
zen, was found dead at 10 o’clock last
night on the Talbotton road, ten miles
from this city. An empty phial which
had contained carbolic add was lying
by his side. The acid was taken through
a quill. The coroner’s inquest failed
to throw any light on his death. Black
mon was proprietor of the Empire sta
bles of Columbus. No reason Is given
101 the suicide.
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PLANS FOR ROADS
MEETING MADE BY
ATLANTA HOSTS
The committee of arrangements for the
Southern Appalachian Good Roads asso
ciation meeting, to be held here Novem
ber 20 and 21, made a tentative program
at a session presided over by Chairman
W. T. Winn.
The convention will be held in the as
sembly hall of the Piedmont hotel. Dr.
Joseph Hyde Pratt, state geologist of
North Carolina, presiding, and there will
he addresses of welcome by the governor,
the mayor, chairman of board of county
commissioners and the president of the
Chamber of Commerce. The first evening
there will be a stereopticon lecture giv
ing a series of pictures of highways all
throjgh the Appalachian mountains, pre
sented by Dr. S. W McCallie, state geol
ogist of Georgia.
A feature of the entertainment will be
an automobile ride for all the delegates
over the roads of Fulton county. This
matter is in charge of T. K. Sawtell and a
committee. Mr. Sawtell has already had
Automobiles tendered him.
John J. Woodside will he asked to act
as chairman of tlie finance commit tee. and
the committee has requested Its chairman
to act as head of the entertainment com
mittee to arrange for a luncheon at the
termination of the auto ride.
11 -YEAR-OLD BOY SHOT
u ; - ‘ate, AGED 8,
PLAYING“WILD WEST”
BRUNSWICK, GA., Nov. 2.—An echo
of the visit of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
circus to tills city last Week came yes
terday in the shooting of Lester An
derson, the eleven-year-old son of Wil
liam Anderson, one of Brunswick’s
leading contractors, by a playmate,
eight years old.
A number of small boys, including
the two, were playing "wild west.’ dur
ing which young Anderson was wound
ed while trying to escape from his
captors. The youngster was shot with
a small bore rifle. The shot broke his
right wrist and penetrated the right
side, grazing his ribs.
Upon exau. nation it was found that
the wound was not dangerous and the
boy will recover, but the injury will
probably cripple the boy’3 right arm
the rest of his life.
STORE FI”E IN CO’ UMBUS
CAUSES LOSS OF $35,000
COLUMBUS. GA.. Nov. 2.—The R. J.
Arthur Piano and Organ Company's
store was destroyed by fire last night,
entailing a loss of $35,000, with insur
ance of $16,000. The origin of the fire
is not known. It took the entire fire
depaitment more than an hour to get
the flames under control.
EXTRA’
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
ILL FICTIONS.
TOBIES
WILSON
RILL).I
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Democratic Enthusiasm Will h
Run Rampant at Five Points j
Meeting Tonight.
JOE BROWN AND ARNOLD I
WILL APPEAR TOGETHER I
Bob Maddox and Jim Wood
ward Will Bring Message I
of Party Victory.
Today Is Wilson and Marshall day/
throughout the state -and Democracu
that has been pent up and subdued |
since Grover Cleveland ran roughshod ”
over Republicanism in 1892 will bi
turned loose at the rally at Five Poinll >
tonight untamed and rampant.
The music starts at 7:30 o'clock. |
The Donkey knows he is going I
win. 'VI
The committee in charge has dee|s(l
cd upon a progra n of five-nflriu |
speeches. The speakers promise th
most peppery arguments why WUso
and Marshall should be elected that-,
have ever been heard in these parts.*
Not that there is any fear that Taft V
or the Bull Moose has a chance to car- )
ry the state. The Georgia Democrats
know that Wilson and Marshall will
win next Tuesday, and they don't want
all the attention of the country on ths
doubtful states.
Speakers to Talk
But Five Minutes.
Walter P. Andrews and Shelby Suin'" 1
of the committee on
have promised to hold down every
speaker to a flve-mlnute talk. AH whe
have se-n some of the speakers on the
eve of a state factional victory know
that it is going to be some Job to ge.t
them to retain themselves on the eve ot
the election of a Democrat as president
of the United States. But they have I
given their promise. 1
It is fearfully tantalizing when it H 1
remembered that Democrats have not 1
had a “look In” on Federal jobs for ten j
years. j
But the Georgia Democrats have re- ■
mained loyal in the face of defeat ’ \
after defeat, which reveals a whole lot
deeper motive than desire for office i
for their fidelity to Democracy. •
Governor Joseph M. Brown will an.
nounce the battle cry, "AH Democrats
for Wilson and Marshall.”
Then Reuben R. Arnold, who in for
mer days made Governor Brown the
target of his wit and ridicule, will sit
side by side with the governor and di
rect his attacks or the common enemy.
Bob Maddox and
Woodward to Orate.
The speeches of these two will jmH
more than worth the truble of att>JM|
ance.
But there will be another
equal human interest. Robert F. Mad- I
dox and James G. Woodward will fol. -1
low each other with talks. But they M
won’t discuss the mayor's office. They >1
will call for the biggest Democratic vote i]
Atlanta ever cast. I
Judge George HHlyer, Robert A. j
Broyles. Murphey Candler, J. R. Smith, J
and others will also speak.
In the interims the band will play
and stereopticon pictures and cartoons i
by the local cartoonists will be shown.
But the big sight will be the crowd. '/
Democrats of Atlanta and Georgia have
been trying to rejoice over a party vic- j
tdry for years. Their political spirits
have run so high that party factions /
have come to mean almost two par
ties.
But not so tonight. There is a com
mon enemy. Presaging the closing of.,
stores and a general celebration on sh-A
day following the election. sotnewherS!
between 10,000 and 20,000
are expected to come down to Fiv« ’
Points tonight and cheer.
Though the Democratic platform does
not call for woman suffrage, the women
are especially invited and many thou
sands of them are expected.
Atlanta can't flatter herself that ahs
stands alone in this celebration. To- |
day is Wilson and Marshall day a! I
over Georgia and the whole United A
States.
The list of state speakers include*: 1
Hon. J. R. Smith and Hon. H. H j
Dean, Cartersville; Judge A. W. Fita,
Spring Place; Judge Sam P. Maddox,
Spring Place; Hon. Thomas M. Bell,
Clayton; Hon. William M. Howard,
Cleveland; Howard Thompson, Toccoa; '
J. C. Edwards. Toccoa; Judge N. A.
Morris, Marietta; Hon. Herbert Clay,
Marietta; Hon. G. R Hutchens, Dalton;
Judge John W. Maddox, Dalton; Hon.
H H. Perry, Commerce; Hon. B. P.
Gaillard, Homer; Hon. Barry Wright
Jasper: Colonel Claude Bond. Tfoccoa;
Hon. H. H. Cabaniss, Marietta, 1J
o'clock; Hon. E 8. Griffith, Latfayette;
Judge H. L. Patterson, Alohareti^M;
Judge H. L. Patterson, Marietta; Hon M
John W. Bennett, Winder; Judge W '3
C. Adamson, LaGrange; Hon. Shepan W
Bryan, Clarkston; Hon. Paul F. Akis
Kingston; Hon. Eb T, Williams, Dallatw |
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